Archive for November, 2007

The pinyin system and the tones

Friday, November 9th, 2007

The Chinese language is useful and difficult at the same time. Especially their characters can make You feel lost in this language like You can get lost in a big City. The Chinese use two different systems of characters, traditional and simplified. Actually these are not the only ones, there ...

China desperatly needs ressources and goes to the moon

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

At October the 24th 2007 China started it's first mission to the moon. At November the 5th 2007 the mission reached the moon. The mission is named Chang'e-1 (嫦娥一号 Cháng'é Yīhào). Chang'e is the name of the Chinese moon goddess who sent a prince to the moon. The ...

Learn English together with these J-girls

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

See how my friends in Japan teach English to these J-girls:

Alibaba shares almost triple on debut

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The shares of the e-commerce company Alibaba.com almost tripled on the first day of trading, November 06 2007 . It was an great start for the world's largest initial public offering by an e-commerce company since Google Inc. The initial price for the share was HK$13.50. At the end of the ...

ma?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

吗 ma - Question particle to indicate a question. Above is the way You can read it in almost any Chinese learning textbook. Yet many newbie learners of Chinese face the same problem. A speaker is saying something, You are slowly deciphering it and then at the end of the sentence ...

Starting out with Chinese

Monday, November 5th, 2007

This is for all the newbie learners of Chinese. Those who still have to learn their first words of Chinese want to know how to approach the language. And yes, learning Chinese is different from learning most European languages (I assume You are a native English speaker). What are the problems? When ...

Yo learn Chinese

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Asia is a great continent with unlimited opportunities, beautiful ladies and the greatest food available on this planet. Not moving over there is simply stupid. Therefore I decided that all my actions are geared to make this important step in my life. I want to check out all the beautiful and ...

Soon back in Asia :)

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